Mail is buggy... At least mine is...

I just lately upgraded from a 7-year old G5 PPC (Leopard 10.5.8) to a new iMac with Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
My Mail program has been quite buggy in past years, doing some strange stuff. When moving to the iMac I went thru Migration. I now find my Mail program STILL buggy...
Like:
1. I type an email message, and when trying to edit it by cutting a word (or a sentence) and pasting it at the END OF A PARAGRAPH -- I FIND IT PASTED ABOVE THE PARAGRAPH, and it will consistently do so...
2. Unlike the "Classic Layout" the new Mail can list the emails on the left column., free the main window to see each email in its entirety. Nice. Problem is, Mail is not stable, and too often the list on the left, instead of showing who the emails are FROM, sorted by date, it shows MY NAME, repeating down the list (which is not very helpful, to say the least...)... I have to click the "Sort by..." header again and again to change the sorting to from-to-date to get the list right, until next time when I see my name listed down again...
My suspicion is, when performing the Migration, the Mac migrated also some "old stuff" that causes my Mail program to misbehave... And the question is WHAT FILES SHOULD I DELETE THAT WOULD MAKE MAIL WORK AS IT SHOULD, WITHOUT LOSING ANY OF MY ESSENTIAL DATA?
Thanks....

If you want to continue using "SpamSieve," put it back where it was without changing it. It's not causing this problem.
Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Quit Mail.
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return. A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Relaunch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you'll have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.

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